Standup9ja: NNPC not recruiting

Standup9ja: NNPC not recruiting

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has reiterated its appeal to the public to disregard any announcement of recruitment or invitation to its interview.

The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr Ndu Ughamadu, made the disclaimer in a statement in Abuja on Friday.

According to him, the announcement is the third in recent times coming from recurrent fraudulent vacancy claims on various social media platforms purporting to have emanated from the corporation.

“We are constrained to announce, once again, that NNPC is not recruiting at the moment.

”Members of the public are, therefore, advised to disregard any vacancy announcement on any online or social media platform as they are the handiwork of fraudsters intent on fleecing innocent Nigerians,” Ughamadu said.

He said the syndicate’s method of operation included deployment of various means, ranging from text messages to forged letters inviting gullible job seekers for non-existing job interviews, to extort money from them.

”To this end, we wish to once again appeal to members of the public, particularly unsuspecting applicants, to be wary of fraudulent vacancy announcements or invitations for job interviews at the NNPC Towers.

”Anyone who entertains such invitations or deals with peddlers of such invitation does so at his or

her own risk,’’ the spokesperson reiterated.

He advised anyone contacted for the purpose ,other than through advertisement duly placed by the Corporation in national newspapers, should report such invitations to relevant law enforcement agencies.

He pledged that the corporation would continue to report and engage security agencies on such matters. (NAN)

Standup9ja: Calls for Buhari’s resignation insensitive – Okupe

Standup9ja: Calls for Buhari’s resignation insensitive – Okupe

It's very embarrassing and insensitive the way some Nigerians are making unsavoury comments about President Muhammadu Buhari’s illness, former Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Doyin Okupe, has said.

In a statement on Friday, Okupe said though he's not a supporter of Buhari, it's embarrassing how some Nigerians "outrightly deride him, wish him dead as if they themselves are not human."

"Sickness and ill-health many times are not things you can blame individuals for and certainly not deride them about. Both young and old do fall ill and death certainly is not exclusively restricted to the old, or young, or rich, poor or powerful," the ex-presidential aide said.

He said the political implication of President Buhari's health "is neither simple nor straight forward, in a country as complex and convoluted politically as Nigeria."

He said political leaders must bear in their minds that since the return of democratic rule in 1999 in the last 18 years, the southern part of the country has occupied the position of President for approximately 14 years while the North has had only four years.

"This calls for sensitive and careful navigation and negotiation to uphold equity, justice and fairness, if our country must maintain political stability, without which our nation can hardly make progress," Okupe said.

Okupe said the northwest should produce the president in 2019.

He said: "this  type of political concession is not all together new to our politics. In 1998, because of the perceived injustice to the people of the southwest, the political class resolved through an unprecedented concessionary arrangement to allow only the southwest to present presidential candidates so that head and tail the southwest would produce the president.

"It was not constitutional but it was also not against any law. It was politically right and expedient and it brought the country together.

"We must desist from wrongfully using death and unforeseen happenstance to cheat ourselves politically or administratively. Only honesty, sincerity of purpose, genuine love for one another, fairness and equity can make us get to the promised land together and peacefully."